Repairs and old-age categorisations: interactional and categorisation analysis
Charalambidou, Anna ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4579-9859
(2019)
Repairs and old-age categorisations: interactional and categorisation analysis.
Linguistics Vanguard: A Multimodal Journal for the Language Sciences, 5
(s2)
, 20180025.
ISSN 2199-174X
[Article]
(doi:10.1515/lingvan-2018-0025)
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Abstract
This paper examines the use of self-repairs in ascribing old-age categorisations to self and others in casual interactions among friends. Membership categorisation analysis and conversation analysis are employed to analyse self-recorded, everyday conversations of a group of older Greek Cypriot women with a long interactional history. The interactional organisation of old-age labels, and specifically instances of self-repair of age categorisations, reveal that members orient to old-age categories as hierarchically positioned and inference-rich. Members make relevant a very intricate set of expectations of who can be categorised by whom, with what specific age category term and at which context, partly because other-categorisations can also implicate one’s self-categorisation as old. Sequential and categorisation analyses provide a powerful analytical toolkit for the investigation of participants’ local system of self- and other-ascription of explicit -but also implicit- age identities. It is shown that the combination of membership categorisation analysis and conversation analysis can be extended beyond the analysis of turn-generating categories and can be instrumental in analysing flexible, context-shaped and agentively managed category identifications that also have currency beyond the local interactional occasion.
Item Type: | Article |
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Keywords (uncontrolled): | Language and aging; membership categorisation; conversation analysis; repairs; age identities; Cypriot Greek |
Research Areas: | A. > School of Media and Performing Arts > Media > English Language and Literature |
Item ID: | 26579 |
Notes on copyright: | This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by De Gruyter in Linguistics Vanguard. The final publication is available at www.degruyter.com, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2018-0025 |
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Depositing User: | Anna Charalambidou |
Date Deposited: | 14 May 2019 12:44 |
Last Modified: | 09 Jun 2022 14:07 |
URI: | https://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/id/eprint/26579 |
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